Sometimes real life gets in the way of the quest to become a
great doolist. 110 hour work weeks and a
ward full of leukemia have a tendency to do that. So I am off for my first regional of the
format with little or no preparation. Oh well, at the very worst, it’s a full day to
play card games.
While nothing can take the place of careful playtesting, I
did want to get a sense of the current meta. To that end, I looked at the spell
and trap lineup of 34 decks that have finished in the top 8 of regionals over
the past four weeks. The results are given
in the chart below:
While this is not a complete survey, it does highlight a few
trends. The first is the lack of battle
traps. A few players are including
Dimensional Fissure, but Mirror Force has all but vanished. The bottom line is that players should not be
afraid of attacking. The second trend is
the raise of non-destructive traps. In particular, Burning Abyss players are
taking advantage of Phoenix Winds to put cards in their graveyard and their opponent’s
cards on the top of the deck.
I also took a look at the side decks from these regional tops. The table below lists the number of times a card
was included in a Side Deck divided by the number of copies available to the
doolist. For example, Maxx “C” was
listed 29 times and Gran Mole six times.
The table lists Maxx “C” as 9.7 (29/3) and Gran Mole as 6 (6/1). It’s a rather imprecise index but it does
give one some idea of what is being played.
Despite the prevalence of Vanity’s Emptiness, MST remains in
the side deck. This is reasonable given
the low number of continuous spells and traps that are played. Stygian Dirge was a bit of a surprise. It works well against both Burning Abyss and
Satellar Knights. Chain Disappearance is
also on the raise. Banishing cards has
real advantages in this graveyard dominated game.
Hopefully the heart of the cards will be with me. It certainly beats work.
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